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Originally Posted by tequilasundae
the problem i was having sunday is that if a girl had nothing but the gray sky behind her, the pic didn't turn out.
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That's exactly right. A cloudy sky background is a big diffuse light source to throw off the metering. You need more exposure on the model than most auto exposure cameras will provide. And had you been able to for example force a brighter exposure (slower shutter, wider aperture, higher ISO), that gray sky would end very bright, potentially blown out.
Even if you had a spot meter (so you could expose for the model rather than the scene as a whole), you'd have to live with either an overly bright background, an overly dark foreground, or you have to add light.
In that situation, you did the right thing using a flash IMO. Unfortunately built in strobes generally can't keep up as you noted.
Thanks for posting.